Mar 18, 2024 | Lamers Dairy News
Customers can enjoy traditional holiday eggnog for the upcoming Easter holiday
Lamers Dairy in Appleton, WI, is eager to share the limited release of a classic holiday favorite, eggnog. Just in time for the upcoming Easter holiday, Lamers Dairy is introducing a special run of their well-loved product for customers to enjoy.
Available in half gallons, Lamers Dairy Dairyland’s Best Easter Eggnog will be available directly at our on-site Lamers Dairy Country Store in Appleton and available at select retailers in the region like Woodman’s, Festival Foods and Piggly Wiggly store locations, among other retailers.
The delicious traditional holiday eggnog features hints of nutmeg paired with farm fresh rBGH-free milk.
Lamers Dairy has proudly never bottled milk containing rBGH (recombinant bovine growth hormones) artificial hormones. These artificial hormones stimulate the cows to produce more milk. Through additional quality testing, and a required notarized affidavit signed by farmers, Lamers Dairy offers a higher quality, more consistent product.
“Customers near and far have come to love our regular eggnog so we thought offering it during the Easter holiday is another way for them to enjoy it around their family table this upcoming holiday,” shared Mark Lamers, President, Lamers Dairy.
Customers can visit the Lamers Dairy Country Store at N410 Speel School Road in Appleton off of Highway 441 and College Avenue (CE) to find Easter Eggnog for a limited time. The store is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Jan 15, 2024 | Lamers Dairy News
APPLETON, Wis. — Wisconsin has lost 64,000 dairy farms in the last five decades, according to the Wisconsin State Farmer. The future of Wisconsin’s dairy production may be under some pressure, but one dairy in northeast Wisconsin is celebrating more than a century in business.
What You Need To Know
- Since 1913, five generations of the Lamers family have provided the highest quality dairy products to families in Wisconsin and beyond
- Customers can watch their milk being processed at the Appleton dairy farm
- Lamers trademark glass bottled milk is the customers favorite product
- 10,000 plastic bottles and 5,000 glass bottles roll off the assembly line daily
Mark Lamers is the President of Lamers Dairy. Lamers said milk has always been a part of his life. He said Lamers Dairy started when his great-grandfather Jacob Lamers sold his first cans of milk to families in Kimberly, Wisconsin in 1913. Three generations later, Lamers said he was working on his family’s dairy farm.
“I grew up in a family of eight kids. And at one point in the other, everybody in the family worked here, whether it was on the weekends, or they did it for their full-time job,” Mark Lamers said.
The cans eventually gave way to glass bottles. The milk is also no longer processed in the countryside. Lamers said he brought the dairy to customers in Appleton.
“When we built the facility here, we said it’d be nice for our customers to be able to come in and see the milk being bottled. Then they can watch the milk, go right to the filling machines right in your cooler, and buy that same milk right off our store shelf,” Lamers said.
Ten thousand plastic gallons and five thousand glass bottles of milk roll off the assembly lines daily.
Eric McGuire has worked at Lamers for 18 years. He’s currently the vice president of business operations. McGuire said the Lamers trademark glass bottle is a customer favorite.
“They are just a little bit more sustainable. Our customers number one liked the way the product tasted and the glass better,” Eric McGuire said.
It’s no surprise that there’s another popular product at Lamers Dairy.
“Our cheese boxes which you can find in our retail store. We do about 3000 cheese boxes a year,” McGuire said.
While milk may be the golden ticket, Lamers said patience and keeping his shelves stocked with other high-quality dairy products has helped them in business for more than a century.
“A slow steady growth is what my father always taught us growing up in the business and never put too much into one one source,” Lamers said.
Lamers said he’s thankful he’s part of continuing a business started 110 years ago.
“It’s quite an accomplishment that Lamers is a family business that my great grandfather started. There’s not a lot of people that can say that. Being blessed with our operation and what we do, how we do things. It’s been a great joy to do that and we hope we can continue that going forward,” Lamers said.
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